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yuck up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To spoil; to make yucky.
    • The market, she notes, has been over-saturated with dresses "yucked up with a lot of trim. 1978, Stores: The Bulletin of the N.R.D.G.A. - Volume 60, page 29:
    • Paul had a Mazda RX-7, the sharp older model before they yucked it up and made it look American. 2003, Jeremiah F. Healy, Off-season and Other Stories, page 81:
    • While his fellow students yucked the poem up (needless to say, they were women), he went into high dudgeon and stormed out of the seminar room, muttering something about politics in the classroom under his breath. 2004, Studies in American Humor - Issues 11-14, page 64:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
yucking up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
yucks up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
yucked up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
yucked up Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

yuck out · yuck it up